I am eagerly anticipating tonights COUNTDOWN -
Micheal Moore will be on I an can't wait to see he and Keith take on
the world! Should be great!!
I saw Sicko yesterday and it was better than even I a big Michael Moore admirer thought it would be! A scathing and humorous look at not only what is wrong with our medical system but also are unbridled unregulated corporate-ocricy we currently pass off as a democracy!!
I will add more to this blog after the show but wanted to give my fellow kossacks a heads up!!
Till later
PEACE!!
more to come later
America - we need to get over the fear of the word SOCIALISM!
It's not a curse word.
It is so absurd that the richest industrial nation in the world is the only country where our citizens go broke, bankrupt or just plain die becuase they have the bad fortune to get sick! We dump our sick on the streets if they cannot pay - yet we spend money on our egos, iphones plasma screens, hummers but do not think our fellow humans worthy of our care.
We are at the same time the most generous (times of emergency, catastrophes abroad and at home) and a most selfish immature nation. We need to grow out of seemingly perpetual adolescence as a country. We need to behave in the world as a grown up nation and understand that with great power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility for both the world and for the citizens of this once (and could be if we refocus) Great Nation,
I recommend that all see SICKO and make sure all your friends and family do so as well. As I walked out the theater I thought about my sisters mother in law who is fighting bone cancer. I thought sadly how fortunate it was that she does not live in the United States. She lives in Israel, a country with socialized medicine - single payer. She is getting the treatments she needs, she has gotten experimental treatment. I am sure her doctor at no point had to ask a pencil pushing corporate crony for approval of here treatment. The doctor there got to focus and his/her patient and not if the procedure was okay or if approval given would the insurance company try to weasal out of payment in the future.
If she were here, her illness which has gone on for several years, starting as breast cancer and spreading to her bones - probably would have bankrupted or killed her.
We Americans need to take a good hard look in the mirror and decide what is really of value. We seem to know the price of everything and the value of nothing to quote the famous phrase.
As Michael Moore discusses in the film we have a form of socialism - the Police Department , The Fire Department , the Library the Post Office - none of which we expect to turn a profit and most of which we depend on and do a DAMN good job!!!.
Well some food for thought!!
PEACE !!